Privacy Policy
Kanellos Law Firm,
with registered address at 24 Derigny Street, Athens, Greece, is the Controller of your personal data, acting in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Greek privacy legislation (law 4619/2019 as currently in force), following the professional secrecy rules of the Lawyers Code (Law 4194/2013) and the rules of ethics of the Athens Bar Association.
This Policy describes what personal information we collect about you, how we obtain and use it, how long we keep it, who we share your personal information with, which countries we transfer your personal information to and how we protect your rights.
What personal information do we collect and process?
We may collect personal information about our clients’ identity authentication and verification directly from you when you contact us to seek legal advice or apply for employment or obtain information about this website.
The personal information that we process includes your name, surname, address, company, title, contact information (postal and mail address, phone numbers), your documents and means of proof of each file, financial and legal fees’ payment-related information, and electronic communications exchanged between us.
How do we obtain and use your personal information?
We collect information directly from you about our business acceptance process and legal service provision, advice or litigation, to defend your rights, negotiate with opponents, and appoint third party professionals to act on your behalf and outsource specific activities that are critical for the delivery of our legal services
We use your data to perform our contract, administer our attorney-client relationship, update your records, conduct conflict checks and for billing purposes.
We comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidance or professional obligations to which we are subject, including anti-money laundering and terrorist financing requirements.
How long do we keep your personal information?
Your personal information will be retained for as long as required for the purpose for which the information is collected and used, considering applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
To ensure compliance with tax legislation, anti-money laundering and terrorist financing requirements will be kept in hard copies or electronic form for a period of five (5) years from the end of the business relationship or the end of the transaction, except where their retention for a longer period is permitted or imposed by law, regulations or court proceedings.
Who do we share your personal information with?
We will not disclose your personally identifiable information outside our firm, without your consent, except for third parties who provide services to us or on our behalf or to whom specific activities related to the delivery of our legal services are outsourced.
We will only transfer your data within Greece or the European Economic Area (EEA). If we transfer your data to a location outside the EEA, we will implement appropriate measures to ensure that your personal information remains protected and secure in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.
How do we protect your personal information?
We apply a variety of technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration or destruction consistent with applicable data protection and cybersecurity laws. All our employees and third parties we engage to process your personal information are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your information.
Your rights regarding your personal information
We guarantee your rights under the GDPR, including the right to be informed, access, rectify (correct), erase (be forgotten), restrict processing, data portability, object to processing, and rights regarding automated decision-making/profiling.
You are entitled to request access to or correct, rectify the information we hold about you, object to the processing, as well as, in some circumstances, to ask that your personal information be transmitted to another organization. To exercise your rights please contact us.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Greek Supervisory Authority www.dpa.gr.
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